Re: DPI, font size, and Debian

[Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>]

Le mardi 07 décembre 2004 à 11:45 +0900, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> >   - GNOME defaults to a 10 point font for the application font.  My
> >     experience dictates that users find this too small on their
> >     autodetected 80-DPI screens, and too large at their autodetected
> >     133-DPI screens.
> 
> That can be the result of 2 things:
> - Actual DPI not being correctly detected by X, but I really doubt it.

IIRC, XFree86 has a bug where it only detects the correct DPI the first
time. Maybe it's a bug with the VBE module, or a limitation with some
monitors (I really don't know) but I'm sure I observed and reported
this.

	Xav